Anime like Yakyuukyou no Uta

Kyojin no Hoshi

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Yomiuri TV , Tokyo Movie , Studio Jack , YTV , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The story is about Hyuma Hoshi, a promising young baseball pitcher who dreams of becoming a top star like his father Ittetsu Hoshi in the professional Japanese league. His father was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in World War II and was forced to retire. The boy would join the ever popular Giants team, and soon he realized the difficulty of managing the high expectations. From the grueling training to battling the rival Mitsuru Hanagata on the Hanshin Tigers, he would have to take out his best pitching magic to step up to the challenge.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Baseball , Primarily Male Cast

Samurai Giants

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Studio Junio , Doga Kobo , YTV , TMS Entertainment , Asahi Production , MADHOUSE , Tokyo Animation Film , Tokyo Movie
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Ban Banjou is an insolent wild boy who was raised on the rough sea in Tosa, southern Japan. He joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japanese pro baseball league such a baseball pitcher noted for the blazing fastball and the worst control. He fights hard battles against his rival batters, developing his incredible pitching magics.

Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Delinquents , Samurai , Suicide

Otoko Doahou! Koushien

Studio: Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

The story of a dim country boy who dreams of making it to the high school baseball championships in Koshien.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School

Cross Game

Also known as Cross Game.

Studio: SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

The main character is Kou Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports. In the same neighborhood is a batting center run by the Tsukishima family. Due to their proximity and the relationship between their businesses, the Kitamura and Tsukishima familes have been close for many years, with their children going back and forth between the two homes like extended family. Because Kou and Wakaba were the same age and always together, Aoba was jealous of all the time Kou spent with her older sister. Aoba is a natural pitcher with excellent form, and Kou secretly trains to become as good as she was, even while publicly showing little interest in baseball.

Tags: Baseball , School Club , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Tomboy , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Time Skip , Shounen , Iyashikei

Meimon! Daisan Yakyuubu

Studio: Fuji TV , Studio Comet , NAS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Asunaro is a new student at a school with three baseball teams; the first is renowned as being one of the best in the prefecture, but the third, Asunaro’s team, is filled with the rejects and unskilled of the baseball world. As the baseball instructor deems them to be nothing but trash, he informs the team that they will be disbanded in one month – that is, until one of the players begs him to let them play a single game. They’ll be up against the first team, and if they win, they’ll get to take over the title and even work their way towards playing at Koshien Stadium. With the help of Kaido, an ex-member of the first team, Asunaro and his friends will do whatever it takes to show they’re more than meets the eye!



Tags: Baseball , Male Protagonist

Gou-Q-Chouji Ikkiman

Studio: Toei Animation , Yomiuri Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Sports

Ikkiman is super human alien , but he doesn't know it. He was raised in a farm by an old couple. When his girlfriend dumps him to become a star, Ikkiman swears to himself that he will become a super star even more famous then her so they can get back together, and so he leaves the farm for the city. There he interupts the match of the Battle-ball team "Blue Planets", the battle-ball champions of the earth, and decides to join them with his superhuman discovered abilities. With the Blue planets, Ikkiman will play against alien enemy's for the title of champion, and for the sake of the planet earth.

Tags: Aliens , Baseball , Male Protagonist

Touch

Studio: Group TAC , Toho , Asatsu DK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

The story centers around three characters - Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he's talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who's been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he's willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.

Tags: Baseball , School , Coming of Age , Twins , Tragedy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , School Club , Acrobatics , Rural , Boxing

Nine: Original-ban

Studio: Group TAC , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

Cinema adaption of the manga by Mitsuru Adachi.

Tags: School , School Club , Love Triangle , Athletics , Baseball , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast

Major S1

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Studio Hibari , NHK
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Honda Shigeharu is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Hoshino Momoko is Goro's schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.




Tags: Baseball , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Shounen , School , Time Skip , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Language Barrier , Bullying

Shin Kyojin no Hoshi

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Yomiuri TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A continuation of the popular baseball saga about the star pitcher of a professional baseball team.



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast